Do you know the "World Button Museum"? It sounds like a very tall museum, but it is a small farmhouse.
On the 20th, the China Button Industry Network Xiaobian came to Dabu Village, Dabu Town, Yanggu County. Once he inquired about the “Button Museum,†the villagers enthusiastically directed the Xiaobian. On the gate of an ordinary courtyard, the Red Spring couplets with “Button Expo†are still on the way to the courtyard that seems to be commonplace.
The director of the museum, Bu Jianfang, learned that Xiao Bian was coming and waited outside the gate early and enthusiastically took Xiao Bian to visit his “World Button Museumâ€. Not to mention the museum is not big, but it is a simple three houses, but it has a collection of button accessories from more than 200 countries and regions. Above the door of the museum, there is a “World Button Museum†plaque hung on its sides, and wooden couplets depicting “the essence of Tibetan art and the rare world treasures†hang on both sides.
Bu Jianfang introduced that he had collected buttons since 1991 and founded the museum in 1996. In 1997, the number of button collections was the largest in the world. At present, it has collected nearly 200,000 buttons and is the holder of the Guinness Book of World Button Collection.
Bu Jianfang divides the buttons into eight categories of commemorative, signage, precious, orphan, ancient, deformed, size, and texture. The texture is divided into gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, platinum, jewelry, glass, and grass. There are 45 subcategories such as cloth, leather, bones, shells, and animal horns.
Collecting buttons for bitterness and joy
In 1991, when he was looking for something in his home, he accidentally discovered an old bronze circular button. Although the nose button had been worn thinly and unclearly, he had revealed a secluded beauty that made him addicted. In the play, I had a strong idea of ​​a favorite button. If he had the best way to put his pocket, he would carry it with him and take it out when he was free.
In these years, he was particularly uncomfortable about not accepting buttons and not talking about research buttons in a day. In order to collect the buttons, Bu Jianfang resigned from the doctor's post and started to work as a full-time collector. He paid too much for this and also realized the happiness and sense of accomplishment that no one else could understand.
In the past 20 years, the place where he collected most buttons was the flea market. When looking for buttons, some of the old clothes were filthy and pungent. He resisted the patience of finding one by one. The clothes were all rummaged, tired back pain, wrist numbness, arm pain did not dare to move, dizzy brain swelling, just want to vomit, and sometimes even eat without food, despite all the hardships, when one When the buttons that they don't have are present, the happiness is beyond words.
After more than 20 years of running and tens of thousands of miles, Bu Jianfang's footprints travelled over half of China’s cultural market, costing several hundred thousand yuan, collecting more than 100,000 species of buttons, and continuously loading it from 1997 to 2000. The Guinness Book of the World.
On one occasion, Bu Jianfang discovered two precious buttons in the cultural market in Henan's Fuyang: one was the emblem of the United States National Emblem, and the other was a portrait of a French general participating in the American Revolutionary War. The other side opened a price of 1,000 yuan, leaving him with only 500 yuan. The two sides have been deadlocked. In the end, Bu Jianfang made a concession, and he used his jade wrench that he had worn for more than 30 years and was worth thousands of yuan to change the button to his hand. After returning home, he also wrote an article entitled “The Lost Fingersâ€.
Small buttons contain big culture
Among the many buttons he collected, bronze was used to cast buttons on the hieroglyphics of our country, Le Tournament in the fifteenth century, the "Loyalty" deduction in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, and the water division uniforms and stones of Deng Shichang in the late Qing Dynasty. There are thousands of ancient buttons made of animal bones. Although the work is rough, it is a historic collection that provides valuable information for the study of our country's history.
There are thousands of metal plate flowers, cast flowers, and carved buttons in the museum. The workmanship is fine, and if it is made of silk, it is amazing. There are tens of thousands of odd-shaped odd-shaped buttons. There are various types of sun, moon and stars, sheep's hooves, conch shells, bowls, fruits and vegetables, which fully illustrate the unique aesthetics of the peoples of the world.
With Bu Jianfang's enthusiasm for buttons, in 1997 he had already collected 81,348 pieces of buttons of different designs. The collection volume was more than eight times that of the king of the United States, and was evaluated by the Shanghai World Guinness headquarters. The world's largest collection of buttons, its collection of performance has also been included in the "Chinese Collector Dictionary", "World Who's Who" nearly 10 books.
Bu Jianfang’s education is not very high. However, he literally wrote a series of more than 100,000 characters of the button material, including “History of buttons†and “Talk buttons†and so on. Several papers were published in magazines such as "Collection" and "Archaeology and Cultural Relics". Among them, "Talking Buttons" also won the 2004 World Outstanding Paper Award.
While he devoted himself to studying buttons, he also had a strong desire to collect belt buckles. Over the past few years, he has collected as many as 150 jins and more than 5,200 varieties of belt buckles, all of which are different in style and colorful. Bu Jianfang said that there are still more button cultures that need him to research and explore. He will spare no effort to devote himself to the buttoning career of the loved ones, and let the World Button Museum, created with painstaking efforts, step out of the village. This is his greatest wish.
One cavity loves the achievement of the “World Button Museumâ€. The “World Button Museum†should let everyone know more about it, let more people know the history and culture of buttons, enrich people’s spiritual life, and convey this immortal spirit.
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